Tier 2/3 mercs gain increased maxlife% and damage as the game goes on (+100% every 20 minutes?)

Goal: killing bases doesn't drag out, high tier bases are more useful, golems stay a fearsome threat throughout the game, repairing with multiple workers is more affordable

Other Twists:

New item "Phantom Hooves" goes in the misc shop, has an activated wind-walk ability with a 3600 second fade time (aka, it won't actually make you invis, but gives unitwalking until next action like Inf gets). Tune duration/cost/stats as you like.

I like all your ideas except the base hp change, that would require a lot of hero skill balancing because backdooring would become more viable, if a team goes together they can bring down a tier 1 base really fast. I know you imply a base heals itself but when doing spike/burst attack that doesn't matter.

I would implement the bases' health changes fully to see how big of a problem backdooring is, and then give tier 2/3 bases a "special passive" that puts their effective health back where it was, if that proves to be needed.

The "special passive" might just be magic resistance, or it might be coded to only reduce damage from player-owned units, maybe only when no troops are around... whatever seems appropriate.

For a more complete solution to backdooring I think teleports would need tweaking, but that gets a bit technical and might interfere with the AIs.

A lot of these ideas are intriguing though I'm not sure if I would want to devote the coding effort and time to test the mechanic changes on a map where basically 4ish people play every weekend. =P If I did do any coding effort, it would be to remove the last hit mechanic because it's pretty terrible in a map that does encourage players to team up with each other. And yeah AoE is just too good.

Workers pulling waves is a pretty reasonable demand (would probably give hired workers just 1 HP to achieve that =P) though it seems like a hassle to make a trigger for the worker not at a gold mine yet.

On sieging, those changes would be pretty drastic so I'm not too inclined to do them since there are other factors involved with them. Like you said, teleporting would have to be tweaked a lot.

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"Phantom Hooves"

Fun fact, I was considering such an item when I was trying to tweak Flo (even gave her a talent that basically does what you're suggesting). Melee heroes really get the brunt end of the stick with WC3's terribad pathing.

Consumable Suggestions: Yeah they probably should be buffed, though I don't really know how to tweak them so much since I almost never use them.

Obelisk/Digmaster buff: Interesting though I dunno if I would want to code that up. Digmaster rage could be potentially abusable by heroes who can heal, though it often doesn't work out so well since units tend to focus on the Digmaster more so than a tower.

Gen restriction: Seems iffy as it can make you pull your hair out at teammates that put gens however they like. Also this doesn't sound easy to implement with the way the gens work in EotA.

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